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- From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
- Subject: Re: How to get CDROM.SYS for OS/2 2.1b?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:22:20 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.052942.20549@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan19.024927.28581@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan19.024927.28581@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan18.052942.20549@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mcover@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark Coverdill) writes:
- > >I waited until after a solid installation to install support for my
- > >CDROM drive (a NEC 84 using a Trantor 128 SCSI board). Using Selective
- > >Install I chose support for the drive and went through the disk swap.
- > >After rebooting, CDROM.SYS was not is the OS2 subdirectory. How can I
- > >get this file off the setup disks?
- > >I pulled CDROM_G.SYS off of hobbes to try that but it causes OS2 to
- > >crash on some disk accesses. Either that or the Trantor drivers I have
- > >need to be updated for 2.1b. Anybody have the same setup working?
- >
- > You want the file os2cdrom.zip, available from either
- > software.watson.ibm.com or ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp. This
- > file contains the correct drivers.
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- Make sure that you also have the latest Trantor drivers.
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- simon
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